Ram Gopal Varma’s “Powerstar” is neither a political satire nor a feature film. At the best, it can be termed as a smear campaign against a person that he wants to settle a score with.
The disclaimer that says the film has no resemblance to the living person is a gimmick that falls flat.
Just changing an alphabet in the names of the real persons is enough to escape the legal tangle?
Coming to this web movie, it doesn’t have a script to talk about. Like his previous films, RGV has not added anything beyond what trailers and song of “Powerstar” had shown.
What this web movie offers is an extension of the sequences we have already seen in the trailer and promotional songs.
The scene order goes like this….
- Result day: Prawan Kalyan breaking his TV in frustration
- Conversation with a top director who has written his election speeches and slapping him.
- His elder brother admonishing him and advising him to leave politics and follow his path of returning to movies.
- Kathi Mahesh interviewing him
- Gaddi Tintaaava song
- Conversation with his Russian wife
- Gundla Ramesh episode
- Chinna Annaya’s phone conversation
- Meeting with Chandrababu
- RGV’s entry and his lengthy philosophical gibberish.
With 10 scenes, he made this web movie, with no coherence, no connection to the main point. All these were present in the trailers as well.
The web movie offers two or three lines extra to each sequence that was already shown in the trailer.
It is more like a cheaply made spoof on the political scenes. When news channels are producing better satirical episodes, Ram Gopal Varma has come up with this, which lacks the punch.
In the end, RGV says, “Nijanni Vetukovatanniki Abaddam eppudu vadakudadu…Deeni artham nakkooda telidu.”
Neither we understand what he’s trying to say at the end of the movie. It seems that he wanted to explain all this year’s tweets he made against Pawan Kalyan and blaming Gaju Teja for the star’s political debacle. Sounds silly!
Bottom-line: Power-less